Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

- Tom Stoppard

Best Quotes about Imagination

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Cooley, Charles Horton

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

Speare, Grace

I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives.

Devore, Stephen

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Brown, Les

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Thoreau, Henry David

It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

Pound, Ezra

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Collier, Robert

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joubert, Joseph

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Morrison, Alex

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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Proust, Marcel

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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Einstein, Albert

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Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Berger, John

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Bach, Richard

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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

Ruskin, John

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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.

Weil, Simone

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

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The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Sade, Marquis De

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You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus.

Twain, Mark

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If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Bernhard, Sandra

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It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Ruskin, John

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Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

Hill, Napoleon

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Einstein, Albert

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People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

Shaw, P.K.

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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Weil, Simone

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You must pre-live the future... not re-live the past... and savor the moment.

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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.

James, William

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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Gerard, Ralph

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Meredith, George

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Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Maltz, Maxwell

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I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

Rainbow, George Weiss

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

Anderson, Marian

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It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Orr, Leonard

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By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

Success Magazine

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

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Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

Breton, Andre